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http://4goesmad.channel4.com/MadWorld/

Interesting interactive stuff here. Have a rummage.

The sound clip of the schizophrenic mind is very very spooky and sent a few shivers. The manic episode was a good one and that had a bit of creep factor too but I like the more positive nature of it.

Yeah but it's a very false sense of positivity. I was thinking he'd crash or something. And those manic stages just bring about regret.

The OCD made me laugh at the end when the guy said he was 'a little bit OCD' after all we heard the woman going through. It pisses me off when people say stuff like that - like it's cool to say you have OCD when really you mean to say you're a bog standard template drone of a human being. Well, that's what I interpret it as anyway.

It's only a matter of time before people start calling themselves "a little bit autistic" in the same way, no doubt with a "lol" at the end or something,

Uggghhhh.

Probably, knowing how they all love to bang on about Sheldon from BBT all the time, as well as this 'geek chic' thing that's so fashionable right now.

Welcome to my world friends No I've only ever experienced hearing voices once or twice inside my head. I tend to hear voices and hear things outside of my head, like downstairs or sometimes the TV talks to me etc.
I don't have schizophrenia, but I'm close with BPD >< I'd hate to have schizophrenia, BPD is enough! D: I haven't experienced mania like that Bipolar I guy for a good while though, but I get it hourly/daily, not periodically like Bipolar. So one minute I could be running around like I'm on drugs and the next I wanna jump off a very high building.

I've been called all 3 by various people over the years (not by professionals - just ignorant people who don't understand the behaviours they were seeing so just bunged any old 'mental' label to it), and I'm not that close to any enough to be diagnosed. To be schizophrenic would be completely panic inducing I think though. Well, any would, but to lose that much control over my very self would be too hard to cope with.

I did think for quite a long time a few years back that I was bipolar though, but have since determined that I'm not, although perhaps pretty close.

I hope whoever has seen the link so far has found it interesting.

Those are the hallmark symptoms of schizophrenia, but anyways a big F to that diagnosis and its terrible treatment and bad meds and bad prognosis and underlying reasons for justifying that absurd label. Even my mother, who actually is suffering from some form of mental state issues, comes to my house and brings me stuff she picked up, helps me clean, loves her family and continues to drive. Yeah, she might benefit or she might not. I think it might be a bit of ignorance on my father's part for blaming her for her issues and at the same time not coming up with a real solution other than hospitalization. She hasn't been hospitalized, but she is delusional in the sense she has deep seated issues that fuel negativity. Once I started loving her despite her illness everything changed, though forgiving is hard. I believe my mother has been hurt, and repressed it her entire adult life. I know because her memories came out when she couldn't stop being manic.

Psychiatry is an evil bandaid that can't stop infections from growing and Jesus did say all you needed was love to heal those wounds. Anti-depressants induce mania in many people and risk suicidal thoughts or even worse.

Same here. I was actually diagnosed with OCD as a teenager. I washed my hands so often that they were bright red, cracked and bleeding, earning me the nickname "Lobster Claws" by one of my classmates. I went through my entire wardrobe of pajamas every single night because if I thought that they touched anything dirty - such as the elbows I used to open doors, for example - they were "contaminated" and I had to change them before getting into bed (I rarely if ever slept because of it). And I continually spat out my own saliva into the trashcan because I believed that it was "contaminated" from accidentally breathing in air with my mouth.

My life was a living hell because of these symptoms. I felt like I was a prisoner of my own mind and considered committing suicide because I never thought I'd ever feel "normal" again. I eventually went on heavy medication (for OCD among other things) and my quality of life has improved drastically, so I don't have to struggle with it anymore.

So whenever I hear anyone saying they're "a little bit OCD" or any variation thereof, I want to punch them repeatedly in the face.

I'm a Christian and I disagree with you. Just because some people don't benefit from psychiatry doesn't mean that it's completely useless. As I mentioned in my previous post, my quality of life was so miserable before I went on psychiatric medication for OCD (among other things) that I wanted to kill myself to get some inner peace. I believe that God gifts doctors with the ability to create medications to help alleviate people's suffering. So in a way, God is the one who provides medication to the people who need it. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that love alone heals illnesses. It's that kind of thinking that leads to new articles where you hear about people with treatable illnesses dying needlessly because their families refused to take them to the hospitable because they believed that love alone would save them.

i am schizotypal, and i thought it was normal for many decades.

I have a lot of the hallmark symptoms of schizophrenia/ BPD. How ever I like the amount accomplished on the up swing I try to ignore the down. I'm just coming back from a down my lawn, work shop and car are all cluttered and unkempt but one week on the up it will be all taken care of. My biggest problem with the ups is not sleeping today I went to work with a half hours sleep, one hour the night before none he night before that.